Fruit-picker.



, ,BY @44M E. HUBB.

l FRUIT PICKER. APPLIOATION FILED 23.13, 1911.

1 1,008,470' n Patented N0v.14, 1911.

Aitomey at Hamlin,1 in the county of 'UNITED STATES PATENT G FFICE.

EIGH HUBE, F HAMLIN, `NEW YORK.

FRUIT-PICKER.

Speoication cfetters Patent.

Patent ed Nov. 14, 1911.

Application tiled April 13, 1911. Serial N0. 620,852.

To all whom 1li may concern:

Be itknown that I, ERICH HUBE, a subject of the Emperor'of Germanresiding onroe and State of New York, havev invented'certain 4 new and'useful Improvements in Fruit- Pickers, of which the folldwing is aspecification.

inventionhas reference to devices for. pickin apples and other fruit,itbeing designed or reaching fruit which would otherwise beinaccessible.

It is the object of the resent invention to provide a device of the indstated which is simple in construction and easily handled,

. and which picks the fruit without danger of bruising the same.

'In the accompanying drawing forming a part of thisspecification-Figur'e l is a per- JVsp'ective-view of the device. Fig'.2 is a sectional detail showing the means for securing the fruit-holdingreceptacle to the picker. Referring specifically to the drawing, 5

i.' denotes the handle which isa pole of any desired length, at theouter end of which the pickeris carried. The picker comprises 'anannular band 6 `of stout sheet metal to which is' secured a socket piece7 for attachment of the band to the pole 5. 4Secured to thel band, sotasto depend from the bottom edge therefrom; is a receptacleS in theshape of a ba to receive the fruit, said bagv being made o canvar; orsome other suitable fabric.' The bag is fastened to the band by twocords 9 which are passed through the fabric and throughperforations 10,made in the band near its lower edge. The cords are passed through theperforations so as to extendA al' ternately along the inner surface ofthe band and the outside of the bag near 4its mouth. This provides afastening which securely holds the bag and which can be readily removedif the bag has to be taken off for repair or renewal. The ends of thecords are made festin any suitable manner.

The'top edge of the band 6 is formed with a continuous series o fdownwardly extending recesses 11 forming upstanding tongues 12.

-semi-circular edge, and a bag carried by band and extending irom thelower edge The .outer ends o the longues are rounded oli' as shown, andthe dgesof the band be tween the tongues is substantially .semicircular.The adjacent edges of the tongues which form the side wa ls of therecesses are curved divergingly` fn mV the semicircular edge in thedirection'. if the outer ends of the tongues whereby tl e recesses areiiared so as to facilitate the i :ntry ofthe stem of the fruittherebetween. I

In use, the picker is guided tothe fruit by the pole, and the lttter ismanipulated so as to bring the stem of the fruit-rixlito any one of therecesses 1l. A pull on e pole separates the stem fron the limb of thetree and the fruitdrops i1 ,to the bag 8. The shapeof the recesses eliectually revents injury to the fruit. It will also e noted in AFig. 1that the recesse: extend inwardly to within a short distanze from thebottom edge of the band, so Ytl at when the fruit is being pickedit isbroi `ght in contact with cesscs being diverging y curved from slild ethereof free from the handle, the mouth of the bag being eocxtens 'wewith the circumference, of the band.

In testimony whereoi i I aiiix my signature in presence ot two witlesses.

ERICH I-IUBE. Witnesses:

AlrruUn GAsoon N, Louisa E. GATE]

